Description: Snuff (1976) occupies a unique place in cinematic history, as the first commercially successful film to capitalise upon the myth of the 'snuff' movie. This book explores the film's production, distribution and exhibition, alongside a consideration of it contributed to a popular understanding of the snuff movie, and an assessment of its cultural, cinematic and political legacy.
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Mark McKenna in an Associate Professor in the Film and Media Industries and Director of the Centre for Research in the Digital Entertainment and Media Industries at the University of Staffordshire. He has published widely on cult film and video distribution and is the author of Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and co-editor of the Routledge collection Horror Franchise Cinema (2021). He is currently working on Big Wednesday: Authorship, Genre and Myth for Routledge's 'Cinema and Youth Cultures' series.